Israel has never shown great (or even moderate) wisdom when it comes to taxing alcoholic beverages. For many years, for example, the taxes on Champagne accounted for 70% of the cost of those wines in Israel. In a stroke of wisdom, or perhaps simply because several people at the tax authorities suffered strokes at the same moment, one year ago the taxes on Champagne fell by 80% and even the atheists among us thanked God.